Attorney Paul DeMarco represents those who received tickets from the Elmwood Place speed cameras and want their money back./The Enquirer/Kimball Perry

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Attorneys for those who paid tickets issued by Elmwood Place's automatic cameras asked a judge Thursday to declare a lawsuit a class action so they can have returned to them the $1.7 million the village collected from the tickets.

In September 2012, the village adopted an ordinance that allowed it to install cameras to catch speeders and mail them tickets that cost drivers $105. It enraged ticketed drivers, many of whom joined in a lawsuit against the village that alleged it installed the cameras not to make the area safer but to increase village revenues.